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Caroline Greer

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PhD Candidate interested in digital and public history views my own http://carolinesgreer.com/

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Caroline Greer @csgreer.bsky.social · Apr 29

I have good news (which I am glad to celebrate in these trying times)! I have accepted a job as Public History Professor at @radfordu.bsky.social starting this fall. This is a dream job for me, so enjoy this extremely well shot selfie to mark the occasion!

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Caroline Greer @csgreer.bsky.social · Jul 16

it's always revelatory and yet disappointing when the expensive art materials work better

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Jul 14

Our posting is up for the @jcblibrary.bsky.social Associate Director -- please share! It's a good place to work, imho. 😀 brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · Jul 16

Congratulations to Worlds Turned Upside Down contributors @frankcogliano.bsky.social and @michaelhattem.bsky.social on their nominations for the George Washington Prize! You’ll hear from both soon in Episode 19: The Gambit www.mountvernon.org/about/news/n...

Nominees Announced for the 2025 George Washington Prize, One of America’s Most Esteemed Literary Awards

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Caroline Greer @csgreer.bsky.social · May 20

when I grow up I wanna be me, but a me who has helped fight off authoritarianism

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · Jul 16

Historians who work with oral history etc know this effect. It increases significantly around traumatic events, & over multiple retellings, which is one reason testimony around eg the JFK assassination is contradictory. Memory isn’t a record of events; it’s your brain forming a narrative for you.

Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · Jul 16

This is, incidentally, exactly why you should be very sceptical of most war memoirs that weren’t written shortly after the war in question (and even then memory can prove surprisingly malleable even unconsciously)

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · Jul 15

All my mates know the harrowing story of how I nearly drowned as a kid and had to be rescued by helicopter. The story came up at a birthday meal and my mum said that never happened. After a lot of arguing and Googling we've figured out I fell asleep watching a 999 TV reenactment

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Caroline Greer @csgreer.bsky.social · Jul 15

Also I got a cat named Harissa

A small, black cat with green eyes sits on the floor and plays with a rainbow toy

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Caroline Greer @csgreer.bsky.social · Jul 15

friends, sorry for being MIA but I have sent everything off for my dissertation and have nothing else left to complete :)

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · Jul 8

The Rebellion is now in progress.

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · Jul 8

Team: I am sorry to report that RRCHNM is eliminating my position in late August. That means I am in the hunt for new full-time and consulting opportunities in history, public history, and podcast production. Have a lead? Please let me know!

And yes, Worlds Turned Upside Down will continue.

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Caroline Greer @csgreer.bsky.social · Jun 26

Time means nothing it was two (2) days ago but I was barely a person yesterday :)

Caroline Greer @csgreer.bsky.social · Jun 26

A quick announcement that I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday!

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Jun 26

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Application deadline is August 7.

Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Caroline Greer @csgreer.bsky.social · Jun 26

A quick announcement that I successfully defended my dissertation yesterday!

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American Antiquarian Society @amantiquarian.bsky.social · May 27

Join us on Thursday, May 29th at 7:00 pm for a Hybrid Public Program by Craig Thompson Friend—Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas
www.americanantiquarian.org/node/12758

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UTSA TBDH @transborderdh.bsky.social · May 27

Join us for the 2025 African Digital Humanities Symposium!
📅 June 5–6, 2025
🕘 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM GMT
📍University of Ghana – Legon + online
🔗 Register: africandh.ku.edu

Join virtually for conversations centering African perspectives, archives, and digital storytelling.

#AfricanDH #GlobalDH #DH2025

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · May 23

In case you missed it:

I published this article in Diplomatic History earlier this year.

"Combatting the Mexican State from Afar: The Spread of Sinarquismo in the United States"

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Combatting the Mexican State from Afar: The Spread of Sinarquismo in the United States*

Salvador M. Velasco spoke to a crowd of Mexicans in Los Angeles, California, in October 1937, representing the Central Sinarquista Organizing Committee of

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · May 24

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

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Gc Rox @gcrox.bsky.social · May 23

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

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Dreamliner Again @entirelyharmless.bsky.social · May 24

Wizard feminism.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · May 24

For JK Rowling "sex-based rights" are not the right to be paid the same as men, to live without sexual violence or coercion, to share the burden of unpaid labour, to escape the motherhood penalty or have domestic abuse taken seriously.

They are about the exclusion of trans women. Mind-blowing.

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · May 22

Excited to be heading to Montreal to teach "DH Programming in the Age of AI" with @lucidbard.bsky.social at #DHSI next week! The overview and recommended readings are up now - anastasiasalter.net/DHProgramming/ - we'll be adding more exercises and resources as we go.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · May 22

Secularism isn’t what’s driving people away from Christianity.

What’s driving people away from Christianity are those who claim to follow Jesus, but completely ignore his teachings and use his name instead to amass wealth and political power.

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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · May 22

Contract Position – History and Global Studies. Deadline: May 23, 2025. #cdnhist #job cha-shc.ca/careers-and-...

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · May 21

Haunting artist book by @transbookhistory.bsky.social, progresses from "Mary Ann Waters is a free Black woman" print via stages of evolving prints to a full archival mention of a Black trans woman that misgenders+unfrees her, shows previous prints selected the true text from that #BuildingBookLabs25

Photo of Kadin Henningsen's "Mary Waters is a free Black woman" artist book, a horizontal, externally bound book with brown kraft paper covers, and the title text letters printed in the front cover

Photo of Kadin Henningsen's "Mary Waters is a free Black woman" artist book, a horizontal book with text printed in black ink on cream paper, showing the title text beginning to evolve or devolve into other letters and words

Photo of a late page in Kadin Henningsen's "Mary Waters is a free Black woman" artist book, a horizontal book with text printed in black ink on cream paper, showing the title text deeply evolved or devolved into other letters and words surrounding that title text but not quite legible as full phrases

Photo of the last page in Kadin Henningsen's "Mary Waters is a free Black woman" artist book, a horizontal book with text printed in black ink on cream paper, showing the title text, after pages of that title text becoming increasingly surrounded by letters, words, and half-words, finally resolves into a full printed paragraph showing the text was selected from an archival historical news piece that misgenders and unfrees Mary Waters, causing a rereading of an the previous text pages

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Caroline Greer @csgreer.bsky.social · May 21

I am very close (and very proud)

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · May 20

Speaking as an author who has now had a recent article I wrote promoted not once not twice but THREE times by people who used AI to summarize it, & which summaries were all DEAD WRONG (not just wrong but wrong in a way that makes me sound basic & banal AF): I am infuriated by what we are doing.

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · May 20

Something’s brewing on Worlds Turned Upside Down.

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